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FAISE BOTTOMS. 



certainty of fixedness to the urine grates, short bars of iron 

 can be placed immediately over them, and soldered into the 

 stones below. Imperfectly fixed or loose urine grates are 

 sources of great danger. 



False Bottom. — A Fake Bottom to stalls, is constructed 

 entirely of strong timber, of the form represented in the an- 

 nexed engraving. It 



is shaped as follows: 

 its base consists of 

 four pieces of strong 

 timber, or sleepers; 

 each piece at least 

 four inches square, 

 and about one foot 

 longer than the 

 length of the stall. 

 The four pieces of 

 timber are arranged 

 as in the annexed 

 iengraving, viz., one piece withia, and on each side of the stall, 

 close to its Woodwork ; and one piece on each side of the urine 

 channel (that is, the channel passing down the middle of 

 the staE). Eunning across these sleepers, or in the opposite 

 direction, are boards of the same length as the stall is wide. 

 These boards must be four inches in width, and not less than 

 two inches in thickness. They are to be fixed firmly down to 

 the sleepers by means of screws, and placed half an inch apart 

 from one another. The number of cross pieces required, wiU 

 of course depend upon the length of the stall, and the distance 

 they require to be taken in a backward direction, so that the 

 animal can at aU times stand or lie upon the false bottom. 

 The foregoing directions relate to the construction of the false 



